12-22-2009, 02:07 PM
I'm not completely sold on the advantages of nail guns, at least for framing. After the sticky coating on the nails deteriorates (and it will, sooner or later) you've got plain (non-spiral) nails holding things together, something for which straight nails weren't especially noted. Even when tearing shipping skids apart for use as firewood, the only ones with which I'd bother were those that had been assembled with plain nails - I would assume that they were put together with nail guns, as there were thousands of them. (Actually, the main reason for tearing them apart was because it made them easier to load into my pick-up - they weighed in excess of 300lbs. apiece. 
) The rest, it was easier to just cut them up, nails and all.
Wayne
) The rest, it was easier to just cut them up, nails and all. Wayne